The Philatelic Bureau of MaltaPost will be issuing a philatelic commemorative set of three stamps titled ‘Christmas 2010’ on the 9th November 2010. This year’s Christmas set reproduces Old Master paintings depicting the Madonna and Child.
The philatelic stamps which values €0.19, €0.37 and €0.63 reproduce the paintings ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ from Lombard Bank Head Office Valletta, ‘The Flight into Egypt’ from Gozo Cathedral Museum and ‘Madonna di Maggio’ from St. George’s Basilica, Gozo respectively.
An amount of 1,600,000 stamps carry a face value of €0.19, 400,000 stamps carry a face value €0.37 and an amount of 100,000 carry a face value of €0.63. The stamps were designed in-house by MaltaPost. The size of the stamps is 44.0mm x 31.0mm with a perforation of 13.9 x 14.0 (comb). All stamps have been offset printed on Maltese Crosses watermarked paper by Printex Limited and are available in sheets of 10.
The ‘Christmas 2010 ‘philatelic commemorative set will be available as from tomorrow, Tuesday, the 9th of November 2010 from all MaltaPost branches in Malta and Gozo and from the MaltaPost Mobile Van.
For more information about this set and pre-orders of this issue can be done through the Philatelic Bureau (tel. no: 2596 1740, email: philately@maltapost.com [1], postal address: 305, Triq Hal-Qormi, Marsa MTP 1001) and from MaltaPost website on www.maltapost.com [2].